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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Train Etiquette

Encouraging manners to deal with carriage crush commuters : "'The more people who pack on, the more likely you are to find the side of your face or the back of your head making intimate and unsavoury contact with strangers,' she said."

Funny when you read it, but not so funny when it's your daily life. Not really a problem in Adelaide and more a problem on trains than buses. It is something we need to get out there in the public arena ,especially if we want people to use public transport. We have to make it viable, civilised and reasonable. It means we need to start an educative process now and a transport expansion process in the long term by the sounds of it. Some people just don't think. So we need the tretiquette and the quick fixes to cramped conditions. We'll listen.

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